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Fiction Updated

Theories of Fictionality, Narratology, and Poetics
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1996

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Fiction Updated offers approaches to fiction and poetics that, in an imaginary topography of contemporary humanities, dwell at a distance from both the mimetic theory of literature and deconstruction.

Author / Editor information

Mihailescu Calin-Andrei :

Calin-Andrei Mihailescu is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Modern Languages Department, University of Western Ontario.Hamarneh Walid :

Walid Hamarneh is an assistant professor in the Arabic and Comparative Literature Departments, University of Texas, Austin.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Contents

    V
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    Acknowledgments

    VII
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    Contributors

    XI
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    Introduction: Under the Jealous Gaze of Truth

    3
    Calin-Andrei Mihailescu
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  • PART 1. FICTIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES
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    1. Are Fictional Worlds Possible?

    21
    Ruth Ronen
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    2. Questions About the Nature of Fiction

    30
    Nicholas Rescher
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    3. Fortress Fiction

    39
    John Woods
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    4. Literary Fictions and Philosophical Theories: The Possible-Worlds Story

    48
    Peter McCormick
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  • PART 2. MODELS
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    5. On Fictional Discourse

    65
    Felix Martinez-Bonati
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    6. The Perception of Fictional Worlds

    76
    Pierre Ouellet
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    7. Beyond Reality and Fiction? The Fate of Dualism in the Age of (Mass) Media

    91
    Siegfried J. Schmidt
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    8. Models, Madness, and the Hereafter

    105
    Cesare Segre
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  • PART 3. NAMES, GENRE, GENDER
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    9. Characters and Their Versions

    113
    Uri Margolin
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    10. Naming Names in Telling Tales

    133
    Peter. W. Nesselroth
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    11. Fictionality, Narration, and the Question of Genres

    144
    Francesco Loriggio
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    12. Narratology, Narratological Criticism, and Gender

    159
    Gerald Prince
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    13. The Renaissance Dialogue and Its Zero-Degree-Fictionality

    165
    Eva Kushner
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  • PART 4. FICTIONS AND HISTORIES
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    14. Signposts in Oral Epic: Metapragmatic and Metasemantic Signals

    175
    Nancy Felson-Rubin
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    15. Of Worlds and Nutshells: On Casanova's Icosameron

    187
    Didier Coste
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    16. Ironies of History: The joke of Milan Kundera

    197
    Peter Steiner
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    17. The Politics of Impossible Worlds

    213
    Linda Hutcheon
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  • PART 5. POETICS
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    18. Thoughts on Aristotle's Poetics

    229
    Umberto Eco
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    19. Chronotopes in Diegesis

    244
    Michael Riffaterre
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    20. Deconstructing Bakhtin

    257
    Ladislav Matejka
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    21. Scratching the Bronze Mirror: Looking for Traces of Fictionality in Chinese Poetics

    267
    Douwe W. Fokkema
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    22. Formalist and Structuralist Activity in Poland: Tradition and Progress

    274
    Edward Mozejko
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  • PART 6. DOLEZEL AND HIS WORLDS
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    23. An Improbable Side by Side: Dolezel and Borges in Prague

    293
    Hans-George Ruprecht
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    24. Lubomfr Dolezel' s Contribution to Contemporary Literary Studies

    303
    Thomas G. Pavel
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    Bibliography

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https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487578442
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